In the book The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende creates this idea, which the reader picks up on, that Esteban Trueba desires to create and have a better life. In the beginning of the novel it announced that Esteban comes from a wealthier upper class family, yet Esteban works in the mines because Esteban’s father ended up spending almost all of the family’s money. Estaban’s mother, however, is quite sick and his sister Ferula takes care of their mother. Even though Ferula cares for their mother Esteban feels the need to provide for his family. When the novel begins Esteban is engaged to Rosa, Clara’s sister, who suddenly dies due to an accidental poison. Upset over losing the love of his life Rosa, and also tired of being kept in tight spaces all day, begins to desire his families past wealth. To…show more content… After encountering the difficulties’ of Tres Marias Esteban starts a new journey of rejuvenating this estate. Esteban is inspired to bring back the Tres Marias he remembers growing up as a child. It comes to Esteban’s attention that although the peasants have been living on the land the house is destroyed and the land has been left uncared for and many of the previous workers on the estate have moved away. Esteban quickly takes control of the estates and the peasants within the estate and treats them as second class citizens in order to gain respect from them. Esteban demands that the peasants work long hours along his side to get Tres Marias back to its unique glamour. But while everything seems to be going smoothly and great on the estate we as readers soon come to find out that Esteban has been taking advantage of many of the young peasant girls on the estate and treating them with little to no class respect showing a common motif in classic literatures of this time period which is known as class